Besides the short I have only seen two features by Denis. One is listed, the other one, Chocolat (198 , though very good, didn't make my list. But I need to see more by every female director. I'm ashamed to admit that I am not able to come up with a worthy Top 100 list with films directed by women.

Don't know what should be wrong with The Piano. I watched it several times as a teen, and found it very fascinating. But as with Stephen Daldry's The Hours (2002), I think half of its quality has to do with the phenomenal score by Michael Nyman - whixh isn't used to its full advantage i have to say.
I didn't see it as pretentious or aestheticised, but found it rather honest and touching. And I don't think Campion wanted to shock (though there is this one scene - which i love by the way. When Anna Paquin is running to her stepfather to tell of the affair... I could watch this sequence over and over). And I'm a sucker for Anna Paquin and Harvey Keitel, with a weak spot for Sam Neill (ever since I saw him in Zulawski's Possession (1981)).

Might have to do with the fact that I watched 5 films one after the other that day (The Piano was the last screening at 9.30 p.m.), was stuck in traffic and had to jog 3 kms to reach the venue in time for the screening. Further, a friend and I managed to get tickets for The Piano after hustling some petty goons (it was a sold out show anticipating pornographic content) who kept stalking us for weeks. The film did not live up to so much effort and bother Besides, that year the festival had a Bergman and an Antonioni retro, and that particular day had begun with Persona, which I was watching for the first time. Had I been wise, I wouldn't have watched anything else that day. Maybe a rewatch of The Piano would help

I also don't believe that I would be able to sit through ten feature, but I haven't tried it yet, so who knows.

I haven't seen the other four films on your list, so if they are all masterpieces, it might be a normal reaction to ignore The Piano after that.

I'm just kidding, though The Age of Innocence is the Scorsese film I would like to see most (besides revisiting The King of Comedy (1982) - and I haven't seen anything by Krzysztof Zanussi yet. There are too many talented polish filmmakers. Or maybe I should say there were...